Yeah well Calvin Johnson has pretty much stated he is happy enough to move on with Broyles and Thomas and forget about Young.

The guy is an idiot, it's not like this is the first anti-team thing he has done either. I could be wrong but didn't he sucker punch one of his defensive teammates as well, Delmas maybe???

It was Delmas, one of the most respected players on the team. And it's not like he has antics and produces. For a guy who literally has done nothing, and plays with Calvin Johnson, it's one of the more baffling stories I've heard.

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I guarantee that if someone picks Cam Newton in the Top 5 they will regret it.

Tebow is going to be a Jaguar at some point in his career. This just proves it.

I don't think Tebow is going to increase attendance. When he was on the Broncos in 2010, the attendance was 63,636 compared to an average of 63,032 for the season. That was their highest attended game of the season, but that is probably due more to the fact that it was the first game of the season than because of Tebow.

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Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

I don't think Tebow is going to increase attendance. When he was on the Broncos in 2010, the attendance was 63,636 compared to an average of 63,032 for the season. That was their highest attended game of the season, but that is probably due more to the fact that it was the first game of the season than because of Tebow.

I don't think Tebow sitting on the bench as a backup QB when he has a 97% chance of not playing is really going to effect ticket demand, but I'm sure there is at least some demand effect with him possibly playing 15 or so snaps this time around.

Man you guys got to cut Jacksonville some slack. We have some pretty dedicated fans down here.

The Jacksonville attendance crap is WAY overplayed by the media. In terms of percentage of stadium filled, the Jaguars far exceed the numbers of teams with much better situations.

Washington and Miami both have promising first round rookie QBs starting. Both have Metro areas four times the size of Jacksonville, but have attendance numbers of 9.2 and 20.7% lower.

Kansas City is supposed to have some great home stadium atmosphere. But despite being a larger city with a more storied franchise that has experienced a little more recent success, they fall behind the Jags by 3.2%

And then there is a team like Cincinnati. They made the playoffs last year yet still can't out-perform the Jaguars in attendance?

I hate sounding like a Jaguars fanboy and I know the Jaguars are below average when it comes to attendance, but I also hate the fact that the media has convinced everyone that the Jags are the laughing stock of the NFL when there are numerous other franchises with bigger populations, more history, and more current success that trail behind the Jags.

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Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

I follow the Jags and often go to the games, though. People make fun of the tarps but if you take them off the stadium would have the third largest capacity in the NFL. We haven't had a blackout since 2009, btw

Also, the numbers can be swayed by the sheer size of that stadium. As said, it's the 3rd largest and was built to house the Georgia/Florida game as I recall. No tarps needed to sell that out.

But other teams, like the Bears, have a tiny stadium in comparison. So the Jaguars probably have a larger overall attendance number. But if you gave the Bears (or Packers or Steelers or Giants or some team with a fanatically loyal fan base) a larger stadium, they'd still be selling out.

and, for the record, i'm not saying the jags are the worst fanbase in the nfl. but no nfl team should ever have to tarp half its seats*. that's pathetic. especially for $35 tickets.

* probably not actually half its seats.

My numbers are from this season. With the tarps, their stadium is 87% of their maximum capacity. If they took the tarps off, which would give them the 4th largest stadium in the league, and sold none of those tickets (unlikely considering their stadium currently sells out except for club seats which the tarps are not on), their attendance percentage would still be better than Miami and Tampa.

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Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

I had always thought Jacksonville had absolutely horrific attendance, but when you look at the numbers that is really not the case. Surely not something to write home about, but not as bad as most think. The tarps are a bit deceiving, because as some have mentioned, that stadium was not built just for the Jaguars, but also Georgia-Florida. Not the same as custom building a stadium for the team and then being forced to tarp over seats.